Bargain price GL1800s
Castle Motorcycles, the Honda Dealer in Castleford, North Yorkshire, are currently offering a selection of three red GL1800s, all of which are airbag models and they are all well below the list price for a new one.
One of them is a bike loaned by HondaUK to the Organisers of the 2008 Blackpool Light Parade, for use by the Central Florida Motorcycle Drill Team.
The three bikes now at Castle Motorcycles are likely to be identical in specification, differing only in date of registration and mileage. These range from late 2008 and 1,500 miles (the ex-Display Team bike) through early 2009 and 1,000 miles to late 2009 and only one delivery mile, so this one is a new but pre-registered bike.
If you are looking for a red GL1800 GoldWing de luxe, as this model is now officially called in UK, all these bikes represent very good buys.
The ex-Display Team bike for sale in Castleford
The 2008 bike, which is definitely one of the four new red GL1800s which came to Blackpool because the registration number tallies, was used by the Team Captain, Randy Rodriguez. It’s a real bargain at under £15,500.
This is all but £6,000 or nearly 30% off the current list price for this model, which is £21,451. From its mileage as advertised by Castle Motorcycles, it has done very little since it went back to HondaUK last September, a couple of hundred miles at most.
Still showing Blackpool scars?
The 1,000 mile bike is an extra £1,000 and the as-new one is another £2,500 on top of that, but still £2,500 below the current list price for a new one.
Is there any reason to avoid the 2008 bike, because it was used by the Display Team? I don’t think so. It was ridden by a real expert and although the lower cowl still bears the scrape marks to show for the extremely skillful (and extremely tight) turns he did during display routines, only very superficial damage to the paintwork was ever done.
Bill Squires and I went over all four display bikes very carefully before they were returned to Honda and we thought we had touched up all the scrape marks on the lower cowls with silver paint. But either we didn’t do a very good job on this one or, much less likely, someone else had been scrapping it around right hand corners since then.
Seen here being ridden by Randy (left) during a Display Routine in Blackpool
If you want a bargain – and also a bike which has an interesting bit of history to it, which you brag about if you want to, this is your chance. If I didn’t already have a 2008 model GL1800 in the garage I would buy this ex-Display Team bike myself.
Many of the good used GL1800s for sale in UK have been snapped in recent months by dealers from mainland Europe because their Euros have had such terrific buying power. Don’t hang around if you want to buy one of these bargains; despite the recession they’re reported to be still at it!